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We all like a good neon-lit hacking game, right ’80s aesthetes? Good news then from Reality Council Games, who send word Wetware, a single-player game of computer war and espionage happenings. “In Wetware, you play at the helm of one of the world’s megacorporations, doing what is necessary to stay at the top and crushing anything that gets in your way. Hack in to rival networks, bribe journalists and sabotage the economy for your own gain.” Bribe journalists?! Goodness, I am not sure that such a thing could ever be possible. Good thing this is just a videogame, eh?

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A selection of our audience will no-doubt appreciate that “the retro-synth-dreamwave custom soundtrack”. Wetware will reportedly be released in 2013 for all three true gaming formats: Windows, OS X and Linux.

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It reminds me of Spybotics: The Nightfall Incident. It was flash/shockwave game originally hosted on the LEGO site, which became so popular that it got… uhm… ported to other sites where you can still play it.

I like the atmosphere of the music, it feels like it tells you, there is an urgency in the need to act,
underlying dramatic consequences. Okay, I think it just resonates with me. Difficult to say how
it would work as a soundtrack to the game though.

Yep, getting a strong Uplink vibe here. Which is a good thing I guess.
The minigame kinda reminds me of that mod for Half Life 2, one of the first ones, Dystopia. You basically had a 3d world where you need a hacker to hack the objective and open up the next portion of the level while the enemy hacker tried to stop you.

Wasn’t able to get into Hacker Evolution. It seemed interesting when I played the demo years ago (though now I probably have the full game thanks to some bundle) but I remember getting stuck in the second level or so because of some or something, at least that’s how it seemed to me. No way to progress.

I wonder why they’re hacking Ranua (4 200 citizens) and Virrat (7300 citizens) instead of the two biggest cities in Middle Finland on the coast. Same thing with Russia, might as well hack Kamenka (2 500 citizen) instead of you know, the 11 million people of Moscow who live nearby.